5 things you need to know this month

Runners-up rarely get the attention they deserve, but two days on Britain’s second-highest peak BEN MACDUI will show you why this is the king of the Scottish hills.

From invisible hills to a mountain that might make you mad...

For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...

A Matterhorn, a pyramid, a dragon’s back: the peaks of Eryri strike some incredible poses.

Skip Wales’ highest peak and head for the runner-up, CARNEDD LLEWELYN . It’s a mountain with history, with attitude, with views, and with more than a few stories to tell.

Jim Perrin remembers the giant of Mull, an elegant outlier leaning seaward